Hundreds of runners celebrated Run The Maine’s highly anticipated return last Friday September 23 taking to the trails in and around Castlemaine and raising valuable funds for Castlemaine’s hospital Dhelkaya Health.
Featuring three different runs over 5km, 10km and 21.1 km, the action started with the 21.1km half marathon runners catching the Victorian Goldfields Railway steam train out to their Maldon start line, while the 10km run featured a loop through Walmer Forest and the 5km walk/run took participants up Gingell Street and through the picturesque Castlemaine Botanical Gardens. The event winding up under lights at Camp Reserve.
Run The Maine event director Gavin Krasner said the team were delighted with the response to their first physical run back following covid.
“Maree Edwards once again came along to open the event. We really appreciate Maree’s support,” he said.
“We had just under 500 runners take to the three courses with participants travelling to Castlemaine from as far away as Perth, Brisbane and right across Victoria.
“We even had a Dutch runner take out our five kilometre Open Men’s event!” he said.
Gavin said funds were still being tallied at the time of going to press but they were well on target to achieving their fundraising goal and securing a BiPAP ventilation machine for Dhelkaya Health.
The run director said they had a fantastic response to their new 5km and 10km course routes.
“Thanks must also go to Shire CEO Darren Fuzzard and Dhelkaya Health CEO Sue Race who assisted with the presentations,” he said.
Gavin also thanked the incredible team of volunteers which worked so hard to make the event possible and all the sponsors for their support of the event.
“I’d like to particularly thank the Rapid Relief Team for providing the barbecue and putting together a massive team of 65 marshalls. Keeping our participants safe while they enjoy their runs is our highest priority and the friendly marshalls made our participants feel safe and secure on course. The RRT do some fantastic work in the community and we are extremely grateful for their support in helping making the day a success,” he said.
“The three main things we aim to do is to create a really good community event; ensure our runners have a really good time with fun and challenging runs; and promote the importance of health and wellbeing while raising funds for our hospital in the process and I think we ticked all those boxes,” he said.
RTM Results
The top placegetters in each division were as follows:
Open Men’s 21km: 1st Sean Tee 1:26:14, 2nd Ryan Worn 1:27:09, 3rd Daniel Rees 1:32:43.
Open Other 21km: 1st Jesse Boylan in 2:16:34.
Women’s Open 21km: 1st Vanessa Bull 1:44:02, 2nd Anna Huggins 1:46:47, 3rd Sophie O’Hare 1:47:06.
Veteran Male 21km: 1st Mark Dainton 1:40:46, 2nd Ray Durrant 1:56:37, 3rd Anthony Greaves 2:09:25.
Veteran Female 21km: 1st Robin Murdoch 2:06:14, 2nd Pam Joseph 2:06:32, 3rd Raewyn Rice 2:30:11.
Open Female 10km: 1st Laura Sammon 46:55, 2nd Alyse Starr 0:47:37, 3rd Laura Latter 50:34.
Open Male 10km: 1st Taine Lang 37:02, 2nd Ben Orphin 42:19, 3rd Karl Quast 42:59.
Open Male Veteran 10km: 1st David Reidie 52:30, 2nd Hunter Gill 54:34, 3rd Alan Pearce 1:07:09.
Under 15 Female 10km: 1st Keely Williams 50:30, 2nd Mackenzie Ridgway 1:10:05.
Under 15 Male 10km: 1st Lachlan Stewart 48:10, 2nd Cooper Ridgway 52:56.
Open Female 5km: 1st Tully Lang 20:47, 2nd Eve Lamb 23:17, 3rd Ebony Anglin 24:36.
Open Male 5km: 1st Bram Van Druten 16:02, 2nd Tez Kavanagh-Dando 18:32, 3rd Rory McPhillips 19:02.
Veteran Female 5km: 1st Jane Marriott 31:53, 2nd Marg Prowse 35:17, 3rd Susan Verbyla 36:38.
Veteran Male 5km: 1st Gavin Kearney 20:04, 2nd Steven Townsend 25:08, 3rd Bill Wiglesworth 32:53.
Under 15 Female 5km: 1st Willow Kelly 21:59, 2nd Madeleine Davies 26.11, 3rd Arora Annear-Foster 30:11.
Under 15 Male 5km: 1st Alex Welch 20:27, 2nd Will Runnalls 22:26, 3rd Seth McGill 22:42.
For more results see the Run the Maine website.
